Read more about it on our Cabaret in Captivity web page

Conceived by Edward Einhorn

Developed and directed by Edward Einhorn and Jenny Lee Mitchell

This year’s presentation will be at
Torn Page Salon, 435 W. 22nd Street

Saturday April 11 at 8pm
Sunday April 12 at 3pm

$25 recommended donation

Songs and sketches written in Terezín/Theresienstadt, from Lisa Peschel's anthology Performing Captivity, Performing Escape and other sources. 

Full of satire, bitter humor, and hope, these pieces demonstrate how art became a vital survival technique for the inmates

Original work written by Armin Berg, Robert Dauber, Sergei Dreznin, Grigory Flidlider, Hans Hofer, Vitezslav “Pidla” Horpatzky, Jaroslav Jezek, Gideon Klein, Frantisek Kowanitz, Josef Lustig, Felix Porges, Frida Rosenthal, Erwin Schulhoff, Leo Strauss, Myra Strauss-Gruhenberg, Karel Svenk, Victor Ullmann, and Ilse Weber

With: Craig Anderson, Seth Gilman, Jenny Lee Mitchell, and Katarina Vizina

Musical direction and piano accompaniment: Maria Dessena

Part of Remembrance Readings program of National Jewish Theater Foundation—Holocaust Theater International Initiative